re: This is a bad football team and a mediocre franchise.(Posted by Champagne on 12/30/12 at 5:53 pm to Tiger in Texas)

Yes, this FO, these coaches and some of these players have done some wonderful things since 2005. I can give them props for what they've done well, and at the same time, identify what they have failed to do well.

In what area of franchise building have they failed? Defense.

How do you overcome a historical record of losing? Sustained excellence.

How do you build sustained excellence? Stop fricking up for years in building your D roster.

re: This is a bad football team and a mediocre franchise.(Posted by Aintsaloser on 12/30/12 at 5:53 pm to Slapouttiger)

world class speed on defense. defense wins championships. Game is won on the offensive and defensive lines and also with speed not by a Breesus. Breesus didn't do shite. I would put the fastest defense in the world on there: no way they could lose.

re: This is a bad football team and a mediocre franchise.(Posted by Hoodoo Man on 12/30/12 at 6:35 pm to Aintsaloser)

quote:world class speed on defense. defense wins championships. Game is won on the offensive and defensive lines and also with speed not by a Breesus. Breesus didn't do shite. I would put the fastest defense in the world on there: no way they could lose.

re: This is a bad football team and a mediocre franchise.(Posted by BigBrod81 on 12/30/12 at 6:40 pm to Aintsaloser)

quote:world class speed on defense. defense wins championships. Game is won on the offensive and defensive lines and also with speed not by a Breesus. Breesus didn't do shite. I would put the fastest defense in the world on there: no way they could lose.

Man, the admins need to invest in some "tard be gone" especially on Sunday afternoons in the fall & winter.

re: This is a bad football team and a mediocre franchise.(Posted by lsutiger2010 on 12/30/12 at 6:45 pm to Champagne)

quote:In what area of franchise building have they failed? Defense.

Yes, the defense has been bad. But you act like they are blatantly not working on the defense. We picked up a very good coordinator in Spags. We have been spending all our first round draft picks recently on defense with the exception of Ingram. We have gone after big names in free agency in the last several years, i.e. Lofton, Sharper, etc.

Just because it's not happening doesn't mean they're not trying. There are 20 teams that don't make it the playoffs each year. Are all of these teams not trying? The right pieces have to fall in place and it just hasn't happened for us yet to get a great defense.